Zhenhai Cup - The 3rd International Industrial Design Competition

1. Background of Competition

After the successful series of “Chinese Ningbo international industrial design exposition” of 2006 、2007, the 3rd WIDF will be held in September 2008, in Ningbo, China, hosted by ICSID (The International Council of Societies of Industrial Design), the Ningbo Municipal People’s Government, CIDA (China Industrial Design Association) and Industrial Design Branch of China Mechanics Engineering Society in together. The 2008 WIDF, which would include an International Industrial Design Exhibition, an International Design Summit Forum and an International Industrial Design Competition, is aimed to promote the development of industrial design in China, elevate the sense of independent innovation design in manufacturing industry, improve China design industry's overall strength and make a positive effort in China's shift from a large manufacturing country to a manufacturing power country as well as a large design country.
  Zhenhai Cup - The 3rd International Industrial Design Competition remains to be a key project of WIDF as last year, which has a theme of “Protection of natural, love life” and would invite friends all over the world to join this competition as to utilize the collective wisdom and inspiration and to create future products of more beautiful, more comfortable and healthier to improve modern people's living standard.
  This competition is endorsed by ICSID, titled and hosted by Zhenhai District People's Government of Ningbo City and also hosted by committee, Industrial Design Branch of China Mechanics Engineering Society and etc. This competition includes 3 main design categories: Cultural and daily necessities group,  Consumer Electronics Group; Reconstruction of the earthquake relief products group, Face global collection outstanding creativity design work, Sets up specially for “Reconstruction of the earthquake relief products group” Hoped that designer's creativity can let the world few disaster, many compassion and concern. the world and the jury will consists of renowned domestic and foreign design experts. Finally, 3grades of awards will be given for each main category and All being accepted and the award will display at 2008 Chinese Ningbo international industrial design exposition

2. Theme of Competition

Protection of natural, love life

 

3. Objective of Competition

¨  Design Changes Quality of Life

¨  Improve Ability of Design Innovation

¨  Cultivate New Design Industry

 

4. Organizations

Hosted by

¨  Industrial Design Branch of China Mechanics Engineering Society

¨  2008 Chinese Ningbo International Industrial design Exposition Organization committee

¨  Zhenhai District People's Government of Ningbo City

Endorsed by

¨  ICSID (The International Council of Societies of Industrial Design)

Supported by

¨  Institute of Modern Industrial Design of Zhejiang University

¨  Design Online（www.dolcn.com）

¨  www.billwang.net

 

5. Contestant Qualifications

Any organizations or teams, any individual professionals or lovers in design field all over the world are welcome.

¨  the college teachers and students in professional design field in China (including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan regions)

¨  professional designers in design institutes and enterprises

¨  individual design lovers

The above organizations or individuals can either apply in team or independently.

 

6. participation scope of the competition

This competition includes 3 main design categories: Cultural and daily necessities group, Consumer Electronics Group; Reconstruction of the earthquake relief products group

1）.Cultural and daily necessities group

Including: Culture class: Each kind of stationery, decorative lighting, musical instrument, leisure travel, appeal class thing, Daily necessities class: White, black electrical appliances, air treatment class product , Kitchen sanitary ware product; health care nursing class product etc.

2）. Consumer Electronics Group

Including: Telephone communications products, IT and digital types of office products, digital entertainment and business school supplies, the use of electronic technology in other related products

3）. Reconstruction of the earthquake relief products group

Including: In this compatriots and the entire nation mourn the victims of the disaster relief reconstruction moment, designers give full play to creativity, for some of the geological potential natural disasters, can create a pre-disaster early warning, disaster relief and reconstruction and all other medical treatment Related products and concepts, all belong to this group of product design

7. Entry Requirements

¨  All the designs must be original and no infringement of the third party's intellectual property rights.

¨  All the designs should be in accordance with theme and objective of the competition.

¨  The market value and the feasibility of mass production should be taken into consideration during design.

¨  The design of concept product should be forward-looking, grasping the trend of the product in the future to some extent.

¨  The designs which have attended any other competition or designed for the third-party are not allowed.

 

8. Entry Procedure

Registration Fee: Free

Submission of Designs

¨  Both design and registration form (DOWNLOAD) should be submitted at the same time.

¨  3 main design categories: Cultural and daily necessities group; Consumer Electronics Group;

Reconstruction of the earthquake relief products group

¨  Drawing Requirements: A2 (420mm*594mm), 200dpi, to guarantee large scale inkjet plotting and printing.

¨  One design can only occupy one space of a whole page with jpg type.

¨  Rendering Pictures: can be done in any methods, such as hand-painted or computer graphic, as long as the creativity and design can be clearly demonstrated.

¨  One design should include: The competition title, overall rendering picture, part rendering picture, introduction of design and design title. (The designer’s names or any other recognizable marks should not appear on the design page. Otherwise, the design will be eliminated from this competition).

¨  E-mail design and registration form to 2006iidc@163.com 2006iidc@sina.com or mail CD to P.O. BOX 1514, Yuquan Campus, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, 310027. If the design is too big to email, please mail CD or transfer files directly through Tencent QQ (108176092).

¨  Deadline of Submission: September 10th, 2008.

 

9. Schedule

²  Submission: Jun. 1, 2008 – Sep. 10, 2008

²  Pre-election: Sep. 13, 2008 – Sep. 14, 2008

²  Shortlist Announced: Sep. 16, 2008

²  Final Assessment: Sep. 19, 2008

²  Awarding Ceremony: Sep. 22, 2008

²  Exhibition of Outstanding Designs: Sep. 20, 2008 – Sep. 23, 2008

 

10. Evaluation Criteria

²  in accordance with the theme and objective of the competition while complying with the entry requirements

²  forward-looking and innovative

²  in line with the modern aesthetic trends and also with a certain market value

²  feasible for mass production with regard to modern manufacturing technology

²  convenient, comfortable and safe for operation, easy for use and generic in function for a better user experience

²  be a green design and environmental friendly, saving the cost of manufacturing, energy consumption and so on

 

11. The jury will end on 10 domestic and foreign experts about the judges composed of

12. Awards

“Culture and daily necessities group”, “Consumer Electronics Group” “Reconstruction of the earthquake relief products group” Each type of set up

 1 First Prize, 2 Second Prizes, 3 Third Prizes and 42 Excellent Prizes.

Award

Quota

Bonus

Certificate

Cup

First Prize

3

20,000 RMB

ü

ü

Second Prize

6

10,000 RMB

ü

ü

Third Prize

9

5,000 RMB

ü

ü

Excellent Prize

42

none

ü

none

Total

60

165,000 RMB

60

18

 

13. Declaration of Intellectual Property

¨  As with all the entry designs, the hosts have the right to promote, display, publish and advertise in any other forms. Except authorized by the hosts, any organizations, individuals or third-parties are forbidden to re-design, produce, sell, promote, publish, exhibit and advertise any of the entry design in any forms. Otherwise, the hosts have held legally accountable rights.

¨  For the designs which have industrialization potential, the hosts can connect the designers to the enterprises, helping to industrialize the designs and the designers could be financially awarded according to the industrialization extent. In the same conditions, the enterprises from Zhenhai District of Ningbo City have the priority to adopt the designs.

 

14. Contact Us

Competition Organizing Committee

Industrial Design Branch of China Mechanics Engineering Society

Address: Room 101, Secretariat Room, East Cao Guangbiao Building, Yuquan Campus, Zhejiang University.

Zip Code: 310027

Telephone: +86-571-85595733, +86-571-87951215, +86-13634171982

Tencent QQ: 961619517

Email: 2006iidc@163.com  2006iidc@sina.com

Contacts: Miss Yu Fenfen or Mr. Zhou Ligang                                                                         

 

 

Industrial Design Branch of China Mechanics Engineering Society

Ningbo, China International Industrial Design Fair committee

 Zhenhai District People's Government of Ningbo City

 Jun 15 2008